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What was your first Mac?

2006 white MacBook,, I think Core or maybe Core Duo, can’t remember.
I still have it, last time I booted it up is like at least a year ago. It boots up faster (to pwd prompt) than my M1Max Studio ;), OS is/was lean and mean …
Gotta get it out again one of these days
 
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My first Mac was a Macintosh 512Ke back in 1985. You wouldn't believe how much I paid for the Mac with a dot-matrix printer and an external floppy disk drive. I can't remember the exact amount, but it was more than $2,000. Today I have a Mac Mini M4, MacBook Pro M4 and MacBook Air M4. Things have definitely changed over the past 40 years!
 
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The 2017 standard Touch Bar 13“ MacBook Pro.
Im very happy that those kinds of machines have long been gone though. Nowadays is the best time to be new to Mac because current MacBook Pro‘s actually perform as expected.
 
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My first Mac was a Macintosh Performa 400 in 1993. I was fascinated by how advanced and sleek Macs seemed compared to PCs. It was a graduation present.

Today I'm sitting at an M2 Max Mac Studio with two displays and I would love to show this to my younger self! :D
 
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hugdj68 said:
iBook G4, maxed out RAM and added the wi-fi card. Prior to that all manner of home built PC's, CBM-64 and my 1st ever computer Vic-20. Had many many Macs since. Almost always buy the laptop in silver, hides any scratches and you don't get the horrid sweat smudge on the casing. I tend to chop and change between Pro's and Air's depending on best deal/spec at the time.
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I was a Speccy man, back in the day.

The C64 was much better, so can’t explain why I stuck with it?

Must be Jet Set Willy 😀.
 
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jz0309 said:
2006 white MacBook,, I think Core or maybe Core Duo, can’t remember.
I still have it, last time I booted it up is like at least a year ago. It boots up faster (to pwd prompt) than my M1Max Studio ;), OS is/was lean and mean …
Gotta get it out again one of these days
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Snow Leopard was like Tyson, before a bout:

Lean, and mean 👌🏼.
 
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Late 2007 White polycarbonate MacBook with 4GB ram, which I upgraded myself (it came with 1GB what was tiny even then).
Man I loved that machine! OSX Leopard was lightyears ahead of Win XP that I used before!
Though I upgraded to newer Macs over the years I still have this old MacBook in a drawer. It died a couple months ago but I couldn’t get it over my heart to recycle it.

I still remember how magical it felt booting it the first time :)
 
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The Cockney Rebel said:
Mine was a 24” 2008 iMac.

Top spec, at the time.

Such a lovely, lovely machine. It was actually this Mac that got me into photography.

What about you?
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A Macintosh Classic from 1990, in the mid 90’s. My older brother bought it new.

Macintosh Classic Specs: EveryMac.com

Technical specifications for the Macintosh Classic. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.
everymac.com everymac.com
 
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Macs:
iBook G4 (school)
iBook G3
iBook G4
2010 Macbook 13”
2012 MacBook Pro 13”
2012 Mac Mini
2016 MacBook Pro 13”
2019 MacBook Pro 15”

iPhones:
iPhone 5
iPhone 5
iPhone 6 Plus
iPhone 6s Plus
iPhone XS Max
iPhone 13 Pro Max

iPads:
iPad 3rd Generation
iPad Air
iPad Air 2
2017 iPad Pro 10.5”
2022 M2 iPad Pro 11”

Watches (all largest size, base model, and no cellular):
Series 0
Series 2
Series 4
SE 1st Gen
 
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My first Mac was a 2014 base model Mac mini. Not a fan-favorite due to its 4GB of RAM, but it was on sale for $349 instead of $499 at a Best Buy, and it was a good machine for just basic tasks.

To this day, I don't think a new Mac has ever reached that low a price again, unless you count the base model M4 Mac mini at $449 and adjust for inflation. That was a killer deal.
 
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My first Mac was a base model MacBook Air M1 in Space Grey. Decided to buy it after seeing many recommendations online about how big of an improvement it is. Still really happy with it to this day.
 
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Man this is difficult to remember but in 2015 I started the slow transition over to all Apple, got a 2009ish Mac mini (one with a white plastic top) just to try out from a friend and I was amazed at just how snappy it was even though it was already six years old. Pretty much sold me at that point and have been Mac only since then.

Although now I am replying to this from a 2011 MB Air with Linux on it.
 
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Haha. You did ask…
A Radius System 100 Link, the first, and best, Apple clone (of a Power Mac 8100).

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple he axed all the clones, and lots of the more obscure Mac products, so I bought an Apple Macintosh WGS 9150/120 Link, because it was axed in price. 😀

WGS = workgroup server, with a whole fast/wide SCSI chain (10 HD drives) for video editing.

My boss at the time had a Twentieth Anniversary Mac (Link) for his reception desk and an Apple AIX Network Server 700 (the size of a fridge Link 😱), so I was surrounded by Macs no one has ever heard of… 🙂
 
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I had my first Mac already in the Intel era. A great 13” unibody MacBook Pro, the one from 2010. The last one with an Nvidia “integrated” graphics, the 320M.

The first MacBook that offered 10h of battery life, and one of the most compact back in the day.

I used it DAILY, almost 24h a day, for over 7 years, and then a few more with less regularity/intensity, for a total of well more than a decade of use.

In all those years it had a few drops, but it was a really sturdy machine!
 
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Parowdy said:
Nowadays is the best time to be new to Mac because current MacBook Pro‘s actually perform as expected.
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I have a work-issued 2023 M2 that I sure would like to see 'actually perform as expected'. It tends to have a mind of its own.
 
The first Mac we had at home was a Power Macintosh 6500/225 my mom bought at Costco. I think the first Mac I used was a Macintosh LC at school (there were lots of those; LC II and LC III; no Windows computers at school back then; Apple had the education market pretty well cornered), but the first Apple computer I used at school was an Apple IIe. I remember playing Oregon Trail on it.

I was a Windows user for a long time, mostly because my dad and brothers were big into building their own computers, so I got into it too. I got into the Hackintosh scene and put OS X Tiger on a Sony VAIO C with Core 2 Duo. Then Snow Leopard on a Dell Vostro netbook. Hackintoshing was great, and it’s good for Apple, because it was a gateway drug back to Macs.

My first Mac of my own was a beige G3 desktop I got at a thrift store and then a PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet) a friend gifted me. Then I got a Mac Mini 2012 (new). I had a few of those. Then a MacBook Pro 2012 13” I got second-hand. Then a Mac Pro 2012 I got second-hand from a graphics design studio and a MacBook Pro 2012 15” (certified refurbished). Then a few Mac Pro 2013s (new and certified refurbished) and a Mac Pro 2019 (new). A few other Macs mixed in including an M1 mini that I returned. I haven’t kept an Apple Silicon Mac yet.
 
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